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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Twice in 44 years, Gordon Hirabayashi heard the charges against him argued in the same Seattle federal courtroom. The first time was in 1942, when Hirabayashi, now 67, was a University of Washington senior who, standing by his rights as a U.S. citizen, defied an order relocating 110,000 West Coast Japanese to internment camps. His case reached the Supreme Court, where Justice Department lawyers argued successfully that the internment order was constitutionally based on military need and wartime urgency. Hirabayashi spent two years in jails and a work camp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Justice: A Different Verdict | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

...most impressive parades of criminality ever seen in Italy. At 8 a.m. nearly 100 men in hand cuffs and chains were marched through the 150-ft. tunnel connecting Palermo's L'Ucciardone prison to a new highsecurity courtroom built on the prison grounds. Inside, the fan-shaped, green-and-white room, the defendants were herded into 30 cages at the rear. At 9:45 a.m., a bell rang, and Presiding Judge Alfonso Giordano entered in black robes to take his seat beneath a tall Crucifix. As a nationwide radio audience listened raptly, Announcer Carla Mosca intoned, "At this moment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy Slicing Up the Beast | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

Inside the Gdansk courtroom, the judge began trial proceedings last week with a few routine questions. He asked the defendant's profession (electromechanic); his salary ($85 a month); and if he had any decorations. He did, including the Nobel Prize for Peace, and he had once been the leader of the banned Solidarity trade union. The defendant, Lech Walesa, was in court to answer charges that he had slandered members of several regional electoral commissions. His alleged crime: issuing estimates of voter turnout in Poland's parliamentary balloting last October that were lower than government figures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poland: The Show Trial That Fizzled | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

...much contact with them. Just so we know that choosing between job and kids is going to be hard for her, Molly says, "My kids are more valuable to me than anything." When Molly refuses to adhere to his demand that she quit, the movie gets a silly courtroom scene with big, loveable, football players blundering to the defense of Molly. At the end, Molly agrees to give up her job in order to avoid the risk of losing custody of her children. Of course, the team is dismayed and so disappointed to see their beloved coach give...

Author: By Gawain Kripke, | Title: Rocky Plays Football | 2/21/1986 | See Source »

...courtroom looks like any other. A judge listens as two lawyers argue their cases; an American flag stands to one side of the bench and a Bible is handy for swearing in witnesses. But while the legal disagreement is ordinary enough, the courtroom is not run by any government. Instead, it is operated by a Philadelphia company called Judicate, Inc. For fees that average about $600, Judicate issues opinions in such noncriminal cases as personal-injury suits and contract disputes. The decisions of the firm's judges, all of whom have retired from the public court system, are either binding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Public Service, Private Profits | 2/10/1986 | See Source »

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